More Than Just a Social Construct
The fiction that race has no biological basis is more likely to exacerbate health disparities than narrow them.
Robert J. Morris
· 9 min read
A Puritanical Assault on the English Language
Social justice zealots think they can save the world by inventing absurd new ways to describe it.
Andrew Doyle
· 19 min read
Democracy’s Trenches
The idea that the war in Ukraine is not our business is seductive but dangerously mistaken.
John Lloyd
· 11 min read
Podcast #205: From Golden Girls Super-fan to Right-Wing Culture Warrior: The Strange Journey of Dave Rubin
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay talks to writer Ross Anderson about the Rubin Report’s increasingly conservative (and angry) star host. Anderson’s Quillette profile of Rubin was published last month under the title, All About Dave. "Unfortunately, Rubin, like most of us, is slow to acknowledge the unreliability
Quillette
· 1 min read
Stuck in the Middle (of Academia)
Academia is a mess, but there is still hope.
Christopher J. Ferguson
· 12 min read
Rebalancing the Gender Narrative
Richard Reeves’s new book is a valuable contribution to a gender debate stuck on outdated axioms.
Ari David Blaff
· 7 min read
Politics and the English Language, 2023
The continued relevance of George Orwell’s landmark 1946 essay.
George Case
· 8 min read
On Conservative Socialism
Far from being a phantom in the imaginations of a handful of writers and scholars, conservative socialism is a real phenomenon.
Seamus Flaherty
· 16 min read
Quillette’s Most Read—2022
Here are our most popular articles of 2022.
Zoe Booth
· 4 min read
Critical Thinking, Reverential Thinking, and Lashing Out
Before we challenge conventions, we must understand and master them.
Alexander Zubatov
· 8 min read
In the World of Astrophysics, One Failed Cancel Campaign Led to Another
When Hakeem Oluseyi exposed false claims about former NASA director James Webb, anti-Webb activists tried to take Oluseyi down as well.
Jonathan Kay
· 9 min read
Merry Christmas from Quillette
China's white paper revolution, a Bowie retrospective, and a Quillette Christmas message
Claire Lehmann
· 4 min read
Quillette Editors’ Choice of 2022
“Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.” ― T.S. Eliot
Zoe Booth
· 7 min read
Prisoners of Ideology
A more reasoned politics is critical to the future of society.
Joel Kotkin
· 14 min read
The White Paper Revolution
China’s population has learned that its voice has real power.
Aaron Sarin
· 14 min read